Snoqualmie is the safest city in Washington: A new report based on violent-crimes and property crime statistics has placed Snoqualmie ahead of the pack as far as safety goes in Washington. Seattle is ranked 46th of 72 Washington cities. Dead last? University Place.
Washington measles spread to Hawaii: You guys ever play that game Pandemic? Where you engineer a super virus and try to get it to spread to the whole world? You really know shit’s real in that game when the airports shut down. Anyway, some unvaccinated kids exposed to measles in Washington hopped on a plane to Hawaii and now they have measles in Hawaii.
New gun control laws don’t jive with Klickitat County Sheriff: Sheriff Bob Songer thinks I-1639, the ballot initiative passed in November that went into law in January, is a bad law. It puts a lot of restrictions on the sale of semi-automatic rifles. Songer doesn’t like that. He says he won’t be enforcing the new laws.
Howard Schultz made a shitfuck of money at Starbucks: His compensation was around 1,700 greater than the median employee’s when he was working. Just throwing that into the void.
Which brings us to him running for president: It seems like this (still-hypothetical) candidacy may be the world’s most expensive tax evasion scheme.
PCC is removing all its self-checkout kiosks: Say it isn’t so! No more agency at PCC Community Markets? This is a move allegedly meant to strengthen the bond between cashier and shopper. Fuck that. I want to check out at my leisure.
It’s fucking cold in the midwest: Chicago is frozen. Timothy, where was that update about your parents? Are they popsicles by now?
It’s so cold in Chicago, crews had to set fire to commuter rail tracks to keep the trains moving smoothly. https://t.co/ccrTwwwO6C pic.twitter.com/av7o5opEQ8
— ABC News (@ABC) January 30, 2019
This guy in Minnesota is faring well: But, I’ve gotta ask—what does he have to prove?
CAPTION OF THE YEAR: pic.twitter.com/uxkUNxJgYl
— Torey Van Oot (@toreyvanoot) January 29, 2019
Federal contractors will likely miss out on shutdown pay: Over 1 million federal contract workers aren’t entitled to reimbursement for the work they missed while the government was shut down. There may not be any back pay for them. The government was shut down for 35 days.
Three-year-old boy lost in North Carolina woods found alive: He wandered away from his grandmother’s backyard and got lost in the woods for three days. The temperatures dropped to around 20 degrees. When he was rescued, he mentioned that a bear kept him company while he was lost.
It’s the three-year anniversary of Rihanna’s album, ANTI: Check out how the artist made the album art.
this is the man behind the most iconic artwork of my album covers to date… #RoyNachum
shout outs to @ImChloeMitchell for this beautiful poem in braille. So many layers of art in this album man! #ANTI #ANTIversary 🎈 pic.twitter.com/h8zXzH2fWx
— Rihanna (@rihanna) January 29, 2019
Empire actor attacked in Chicago: Jussie Smollett was attacked in Chicago on Tuesday. The attackers allegedly yelled racial and homophobic slurs at Smollett, put a noose around his neck, and doused him in a chemical substance. It was reportedly bleach. Smollett took himself to the hospital after the attack.
Pacific Gas and Electric files for bankruptcy protection: The utility company is facing billions of dollars worth of liability claims from two years of wildfires. California’s biggest utility company is under fire for sparking around 17 of the 21 wildfires in the state.
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